# augmentar
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin augmentāre (“to increase”), from Latin augmentum (“growth, increase”), from augeō (“increase”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [əwɡ.mənˈta]
* IPA: (Valencia) [awɡ.menˈtaɾ]

### Verb

augmentar (first-person singular present augmento, first-person singular preterite augmentí, past participle augmentat); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /e/
* (transitive, intransitive) to increase, augment

#### Related terms

* augment
* augmentable
* augmentació
* augmentat
* augmentatiu

### Further reading

* “augmentar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “augmentar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “augmentar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “augmentar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Ido
### Etymology

Borrowed from English augment, French augmenter, German Augment, Italian aumentare, Spanish aumentar, ultimately from Late Latin augmentāre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /au̯ɡmenˈtar/
* IPA: /au̯ɡ.menˈtar/, /au̯ɡ.mɛnˈtaɾ/

### Verb

augmentar (present tense augmentas, past tense augmentis, future tense augmentos, imperative augmentez, conditional augmentus)
* (transitive, intransitive) to augment: to increase, enlarge, to make larger or more numerous
* to raise (rents, prices, wages, etc.)

#### Antonyms

* diminutar (“to diminish, lessen”)
* reduktar (“to reduce, to commute”)

#### Derived terms

* augmenteso (“augmentation, increase, aggravation; rise (in price); state”)
* augmentiva (“augmentative”, adjective)
* augmentivo (“augmentative”, noun)
* augmento (“augmentation, increase, aggravation; rise (in price); (gram.) augment; act”)
* augmenturo (“augmentation, increase, aggravation; rise (in price); result”)
* pluse augmentar (“to raise higher”)

### See also

* plucherigar (“to make dearer (in price)”)

## Interlingua
### Verb

augmentar
* to increase, augment

#### Conjugation

| infinitive | infinitive | augmentar | augmentar |
| participle | participle | present | perfect |
| participle | participle | augmentante | augmentate |
| active | | simple | perfect |
| active | present | augmenta | ha augmentate |
| active | past | augmentava | habeva augmentate |
| active | future | augmentara | habera augmentate |
| active | conditional | augmentarea | haberea augmentate |
| active | imperative | augmenta | |
| passive | | simple | perfect |
| passive | present | es augmentate | ha essite augmentate |
| passive | past | esseva augmentate | habeva essite augmentate |
| passive | future | essera augmentate | habera essite augmentate |
| passive | conditional | esserea augmentate | haberea essite augmentate |
| passive | imperative | sia augmentate | |

## Portuguese
### Verb

augmentar (first-person singular present augmento, first-person singular preterite augmentei, past participle augmentado)
* Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of aumentar.
** 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “Fabiano”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives]‎, Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 29:O gado augmentava, o serviço ia bem, mas o proprietario descompunha o vaqueiro.The cattle was increasing in number, the work was going well, but the landowner reprehended the cowhand.

#### Conjugation

$^1$Brazilian Portuguese. $^2$European Portuguese.

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /auɡmenˈtaɾ/ [au̯ɣ̞.mẽn̪ˈt̪aɾ]
* Rhymes: -aɾ
* Syllabification: aug‧men‧tar

### Verb

augmentar (first-person singular present augmento, first-person singular preterite augmenté, past participle augmentado)
* Obsolete form of aumentar.

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

### Further reading

* “augmentar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10